Stephen Gentle

I found this game at this blog, which goes something like this:

Hop on over to Google search, put in your name, followed by the word, “needs.” Then, take the first ten sentences that make sense, and write them in your journal/blog.

And here are the results:

Stephen needs a working plan that will be straightforward and easy to implement

Stephen needs a special doc.

Stephen needs his own dwarf planet!

Steven needs some friends…

Stephen needs help

Stephen needs to improve his punctuation and use of tenses

Stephen needs special permission

Stephen needs the assistance of a good civilian lawyer.

Stephen needs to unravel the secrets and disturbances of his life

Stephen needs to be watched very, very closely

So true…

-Stephen

I updated WordPress a few days ago from 2.0 to 2.0.4. I was really behind on updating this software, and I am probably lucky that no one hacked the site. I also added a kind of sidebar thing, as I was getting sick of not having anywhere to put extra information. I hope you like it!

I registered for an account on Technocrati. You can check out what blogs link to me (1 ) or view my profile.

-Stephen

I have probably blogged about this site before, but I will again because it’s awesome. They have a great new look, and a few more examples of CSS3. I really can’t wait untill CSS3 is widley implemented, because things like border images, rounded corners and multiple backgrounds make it a lot easier to make your sites look better, especially if it is a fluid design.

Check out the site at http://www.css3.info/

-Stephen

I saw an article about the new Thunderbird 2.0 alpha on CyberNet News. It looks great! I use Thunderbird on my Linux box and it is a great app. I have a lot of email accounts, and it’s very easy to sort all my email into different folders and so on…

-Stephen

We have ADSL 2+ now. The router says that we are going at 994 / 6647 kbps up/down. Thats 0.97 / 6.49mbps! So you should be able to load pages off my server four to six times faster than before.

-Stephen

Check out this bizarre WiFi extender on Make blog…

This is also funny: A blogger’s proverb:

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 18v2

-Stephen

P.S. I still have to style the blockquote element with CSS in my theme…

Robert Scoble posted some links to funny videos making fun of the Alaskan senator Ted Stevens on his blog. The John Stewart video is awesome.

In other news, Valve has just released a new Half-Life 2: Episode 2 trailer. The game looks a lot more realistic than it did just a few months ago, and I can’t wait for that, Portal and Team Fortress 2 to come out. I think that the bundle of those three games will be US$20, which is awesome. I saw this blog entry which talks about some of the improvements in HL2:Episode 2, which is interesting.

-Stephen

I saw an interesting idea on the Linux and Open Source Blog: The idea is to create an open souce 3D accelerated graphics card. It would be fully documented and completly open. This would make it very easy to support for any platform, and would not require to use closed source drivers which are often buggy. You can see the project’s home page here.

The only downside is that it does not have programmable shaders, so it would not be great for recently released games. It is aimed at desktop 3D, so which does not require them, and lets face it: there aren’t any decent games for linux (yet )

-Stephen

Our newest computer broke yesterday. It crashed, and Windows messed up some important system files. It just wouldn’t boot after that… I fixed it by using the recovery console to do a checkdisk of the drive, and then restored the system back to Wednesday.

On a completly different topic, I saw this on the Linux and Open Source blog:

VISTA =Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans, Adware

Nice to see you get all that with VISTA.

-Stephen

I have finished installing Linux on my computer now. Well, I have actually installed it three times, but I messed up both of those earlier installatiions by trying to compile and load a module for my wireless card. The newest installation is working great, but it is annoying to have to run a network cable up to my room. It was very easy to install and very easy to configure the system, although partitioning the disks the way I wanted took a bit of practise. I have set up my sound card, installed some programs, sorted my email in Thunderbird and it all works very well, except for the wireless card.

-Stephen